Don Chaffey - Rotten Tomatoes

Don Chaffey
Highest Rated:   100% Greyfriars Bobby (1961)
Lowest Rated:   56% Pete's Dragon (1977)
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Beginning in an assistant's post at Britain's Gainsborough Studios in 1944, Don Chaffey was promoted to head of the studio's art direction department within two years. Chaffey made his directorial bow with the award-winning The Mysterious Poacher (1950). On the strength of this one film, he was forever tagged as a "family" or "children's" director, despite occasionally delving into such grown-up fare as A Question of Adultery (1958), The Man Upstairs (1958), and A Matter of Who (1961). Fans of stop-motion wizard Ray Harryhausen will recall Chaffey as the efficient, unobtrusive director of Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and One Million Years B.C. (1967). Hired by Walt Disney to direct 1961's Greyfriars Bobby (1960), Chaffey remained a Disney regular into the 1970s, helming the made-for-TV The Prince and the Pauper (1962) and Horse Without a Head (1962), and the theatrical features Three Lives of Thomasina (1963) and Pete's Dragon (1977). Don Chaffey's last projects included the TV movies Casino (1980) and International Airport (1985).

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING TITLE CREDIT BOX OFFICE YEAR
No Score Yet Charley One-Eye
  • Director
— 2013
No Score Yet The Fourth Wish
  • Director
— 2013
No Score Yet C H O M P S
  • Director
— 2005
No Score Yet Casino
  • Director
— 1980
No Score Yet C.H.O.M.P.S.
  • Director
— 1979
No Score Yet The Magic of Lassie
  • Director
— 1978
No Score Yet The Gift of Love
  • Director
— 1978
56% Pete's Dragon
  • Director
— 1977
No Score Yet Ride a Wild Pony
  • Director
— 1976
No Score Yet Born to Run
  • Director
— 1975
No Score Yet Persecution
  • Director
— 1974
No Score Yet Charley-One-Eye
  • Director
— 1973
No Score Yet Creatures the World Forgot
  • Director
— 1971
No Score Yet The Viking Queen
  • Director
— 1967
64% One Million Years B.C.
  • Director
— 1967
No Score Yet The Three Lives of Thomasina
  • Director
— 1964
No Score Yet A Jolly Bad Fellow
  • Director
— 1964
89% Jason and the Argonauts
  • Actor
  • Director
— 1963
No Score Yet Horse Without a Head
  • Director
— 1963
No Score Yet The Prince and the Pauper
  • Director
— 1962
No Score Yet A Matter of Who
  • Director
— 1961
100% Greyfriars Bobby
  • Director
— 1961
No Score Yet Breakout (Danger Within)
  • Director
— 1960

TV

RATING TITLE CREDIT YEAR
No Score Yet MacGyver
1985-1992
  • Director
  • 1988
  • 1987
  • 1986
No Score Yet Hunter
1984-1991
  • Director
  • 1986
No Score Yet Airwolf
1984-1987
  • Director
  • 1986
  • 1985
No Score Yet T.J. Hooker
1982-1986
  • Director
  • 1985
  • 1983
  • 1982
No Score Yet Hotel
1983-1988
  • Director
  • 1983
No Score Yet Fantasy Island
1978-1984
  • Director
  • 1982
  • 1981
  • 1979
No Score Yet Charlie's Angels
1976-1981
  • Actor
  • Director
  • 1981
  • 1980
  • 1979
  • 1978
  • 1977
No Score Yet The Avengers (1961)
1969
  • Director
  • 1969
No Score Yet Danger Man
1968
  • Director
100% The Prisoner
1967-1968
  • Director

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